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A tour inside the R-Ladies organization

R-Ladies Global (www.rladies.org)

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What is R-Ladies?

R-Ladies is an organization with the mission of promoting diversity in the R Community via meetups and mentorships in a safe and friendly environment.

R-Ladies Leadership Team (current):

R-Ladies Global Team:


R-Ladies Groups Around the World

We have 137 chapters in 44 countries:

  • 49 in the US & Canada
  • 29 in Latin America
  • 40 in Europe
  • 5 in Africa
  • 6 in Asia
  • 7 in Australia/Oceania

Are you interested in starting a chapter? Send us an email:

R-Ladies Initiatives

@WeAreRLadies - Team: Katherine Simeon + other volunteers

The R-Ladies RoCur (Rotating Curation) is a twitter handle that will feature an awesome R-Lady each week. This account is run by R-Ladies Global.


R-Ladies Abstract/Scholarship Review Request - Team: Jennifer Thompson + other volunteers

Feedback on various types of R-related abstracts, applications and diversity scholarships to encourage R-Ladies to apply for conference speaking slots and opportunites.


R-Ladies Collaborations - Team: Melina Vidoni, Sina Rüeger + other volunteers

Capture R-Ladies collaborations in a single portfolio. R-Ladies around the world often work with organizations, ONGs, and other groups, producing contributions, participation, involvement or associations of talks, workshops, projects, conference, etc. And they directly impact the R community.

R-Ladies Initiatives

R-Ladies Community Slack - Team: Florencia D’Andrea, Melina Vidoni, Sina Rüeger, Yanina Bellini + other volunteers

R-Ladies community Slack is a safe & global space to discuss topics and share ideas around #rstats & the #rladies community (for women and gender minorities).


R-Ladies Internation Women Day (@rladies_iwd2018) - Team: Maëlle Salmon, Bea Hernández, Kelly O’Briant, Page Piccinini, Sheila Saia + other volunteers

Internation Women Day celebrating with a fabulous feed of featured profiles from the R-Ladies directory.

R-Ladies Initiatives

R-Ladies Remote - Team: Auriel Fournier, Abigail Lebrecht, Steph De Silva + other volunteers

  • Coffee Chat

Informal and casual group chat about R, working remote, R-Ladies or anything that you’d like to be discussed.

  • Reading Group

Reading and Discussion about a paper or article.


R-Ladies Directory - Team: Page Piccinini, Sheila Saia

List of profiles from R-Ladies around the world, located by country.



What is next?

R-Ladies will be a 501c3 soon.

If you want to sponsor, donate or support us, send us an email to: